Coteaux des Baux: Trevallon Rouge 2006
Description
A very good vintage with very pure fruit and a fine tannic structure. This really requires a bit more bottle-age and should keep well for a decade or longer.
- Style: Red Wine, Dry (Sec), Full-bodied
- Region: Provence, Coteaux des Baux,
- Producer: Trévallon (Eloi Dürrbach)
- Vintage: 2006
- Grape variety (Cépage): Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah
- Wine pairing - drink with: Game
- Cellarage: Merits long-term ageing, particularly in superior vintages. Drinking well now, it will keep for a further 12 years. It should be decanted prior to serving.
- Vinification: Low yields (25-30 hl/ha) and no chemicals give thick-skinned grapes that need 2-3 weeks cuvaison. The parcels of grapes are allowed a warm fermentation, using only indigenous yeasts, in small oak foudres where they rest for 18 months before an unfiltered, unfined assemblage and eventual bottling, 25 months after the harvest.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 13%